Ottawa and Alberta may not always be on the same page politically but there is a certain sympatico growing between the National Arts Centre and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Evidence of the cultural connection can be found in the new summer season that
This Saturday the city of Ottawa will formally crown two new poet laureates. The VERSeFest International Poetry Festival has announced that Deanna Young and Margaret Michèle Cook will each be named to a two-year term. The two women were chosen by a panel of judges because
It's been an improbable rise to prominence for the Quebecois pianist Alexandra Stréliski . After all she plays 'neo-classical' music on the piano she has had all her musical life. It's not the kind of music that necessarily sells out large halls, but that's is what
Listen to the music of J.S. Bach and you can hear it dance. The Baroque period was built on dance. The royal courts celebrated with dance and people studied the steps of the chaconne, the gavotte, the minuet and the rigaudon along with many more now seemingly
James Ehnes is basking in the glow of another Grammy win. The virtuoso violinist received his latest gong for a recording of a concerto by the American composer Aaron Jay Kernis. The co-commission is not the first piece Kernis has written for Ehnes. "About 12 years ago
Reviving Angélique, a little-known, historically based drama from the late 1990s, is bittersweet, says director Mike Payette. The play by the late Canadian actor, playwright and director Lorena Gale tracks the story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, a young, black slave in 18th-century Montreal who had an independent
Ottawa's Southminster United Church has been a community mainstay in old Ottawa South for more than 80 years. But with a shrinking congregation, it now faces an uncertain future. Like other churches in Ottawa and Canada, Southminster is struggling to stay open. To that end
This is a year of anniversaries at Chamberfest. The festival itself has been celebrating turning 25 for the past year and that will come to a conclusion when the world's largest chamber festival opens July 25. It ends Aug. 8 after about 100 concerts featuring
Asitha Tennekoon lives in Toronto, but the tenor might as well rent a room in Ottawa for the number of appearances he has been making here lately. He's sung a Messiah with the Rideau Chorale, a Christmas concert with Thirteen Strings, Handel's Israel in Egypt with
Performers with strong Ottawa connections won JUNO awards Saturday evening. The Gryphon Trio of Roman Borys (cello) Jamie Parker (piano) and Annalee Patipatanakoon picked up a statue in the classical album of the year: solo or chamber category for their CD, The End of Flowers: Works
